BBC Four - Electric Revolution

Following the theme of the trails for this season of programmes, BBC Four has changed its on-screen presentation to herald the 'Electric Revolution' season of programmes.

Idents

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'Walkman' Sting

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Pointer

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Videos

http://www.duke1401.myby.co.uk/BBCFOUR-IDENT-ELECTRICREVOLUTION-01-28SEP09.flv

http://www.duke1401.myby.co.uk/BBCFOUR-STING-ELECTRIC-WALKMAN-28SEP09.flv

Top stuff, as per usual.

The Swimming Pool variant was shown at 8.

I had the very same Sony Trinitron TV used in that promo. I spray painted the shell a neon pink colour.

So, *yay* to that little titbit.

Yes, nice to see the fantastic trailer that's been running for the "Electric Revolution" season developed into an ident set. If only the BBC2 presentation team could make a similar effort with their presentation.

"Upgrade Me" was an excellent documentary too.

I'm looking forward to Micro Men. Well especially Alexander Armstrong's portrayal of Clive Sinclair (or did I dream all that?)

The 'Electric Dreams' "experiment", one of these "take a family back in time for a while" was really good as well, with the song of the same name as the theme tune, not unsurprisingly.

Really went to town on the entire experience, even remodelling the house. How did people put up with such horrible wallpaper, those horrible looking pressure cookers and the heat settings ABOVE the hobs?

But it was exciting! Things had moving parts and everything had a different texture. Décor was colourful and the music was cheerful. I'd much rather live in the 70s than the sterile, neutral noughties.

Can't wait to see the 1980s.

Really enjoyed Gameswipe earlier tonight. Classic Brooker - he was on form. Found out it was on by accident, and glad I did.

Talking of Charlie's various Wipes, is there a reason why the only censored material is when Charlie says the F-word when he's sitting on the couch? If he's anywhere else or is somebody else is saying it, it's unbleeped.

Scenes of absolute nostalgic value on the Electric Dreams tonight.

The early Nintendos. The BBC Micros. The Walkman! Betamax, Video 2000 and a bloody great laserdisc.
Mind you, watching the boy take to programming the BBC micro like a duck takes to water was quite neat how he just jumped into it in traditional male fashion (plug it in, switch it on and to hell with the instruction manual). It is a shame you can't program the current day incarnations like that.

PC programming is still available from the likes of Visual Studio Express and what not, but it doesn't quite have the charm of typing in:

10 PRINT "Awakenings!"
20 GOTO 10

Might be because he's seen as the presenter and not a contributor?

Yep - wouldn't it be great if every PC and Mac came with an obvious and simple programming language - ideally interpreter based so you could get instant feedback - and you were encouraged to write code that was useful. (Scripts and Batch files just aren't the same)

Think the last real code I wrote was in Visual Basic for Applications...

Still miss coding in PASCAL and Assembler, and occasionally BBC BASIC...

Those were the days...

How amazing to think that in less than 30 years we've gone from 1k ZX80s using cassette tape for storage to Netbooks not much different in size with built in colour screens, and Gigabytes of RAM and more of storage.